Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Security Clippings Archive Purpose ------- The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) would like to announce the creation of an archive service for computer security related clippings. This archive will be a central repository for selected security related Usenet News and mailing list postings. The archive will not be restricted to any one newsgroup or mailing list. The purpose of this archive is to provide security information without the unrelated discussions. It will also provide information from newsgroups not available to some sites. This archive is being maintained through the help of volunteers. Additional volunteer news clippers are required. Archive Site ------------ The clippings archive is available via anonymous ftp from the cert.org (192.88.209.5) system in the directory pub/clippings. The clippings directory is also available via anonymous ftp from the ncnoc.concert.net (192.101.21.1) system. This directory will contain the following files: 00-README This file 01-Index.YY Yearly Index 02-FAQ.#.# alt.security/comp.security.misc FAQ YYMMDD-NN Article number NN dated YYMMDD The index will contain the author, subject, source(s), keywords and the corresponding archive file name. Depending on the quantity of articles archived, an alternate directory organization may be necessary. The clippings archive is also available via WAIS from wais.concert.net, courtesy of Alan Clegg . You can use the following source file: (:source :version 3 :ip-name "wais.concert.net" :tcp-port 8000 :database-name "cert-clippings" :cost 0 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "abc@concert.net" :description "CERT Clippings. Mirrored from: cert.sei.cmu.edu:/home/ftp/cert/clippings") Sources ------- Sources of clippings for this archive include: alt.security alt.security.index comp.security.misc comp.unix.aix comp.unix.ultrix comp.unix.wizards sun-managers sun-nets cert-tools Candidate articles for this archive are chosen by one or more volunteers and submitted to CERT for consideration. Disclaimer ---------- The CERT/CC and the volunteer news clippers will not formally review, evaluate, endorse, guarantee or make claims about the usability, appropriateness or accuracy of any of the information in the archive, or the authenticity of the authors of the archived material. The archive is provided as a public service. Any ideas or opinions expressed are solely those of the authors, and may not reflect the opinions of the CERT/CC. We encourage everyone who obtains information from this or any other source to independently evaluate such information before using it. Mail ---- Please send comments, criticisms, and suggestions to: clip@cert.org For those interested in volunteering to be news clippers, please send your request to the same e-mail address.